Tens of thousands of male convicts have been freed to fight in Ukraine. It is not clear if a small contingent of female volunteers released from a prison portends wider use of female soldiers.
Tens of thousands of male convicts have been freed to fight in Ukraine. It is not clear if a small contingent of female volunteers released from a prison portends wider use of female soldiers.
It does also suggest to me that Russia may have exhausted the pool of male prisoners willing to enlist for a pardon.
Willing? That’s not very Russian when it comes to war.
A proper russian gets voluntold
They have been chewing through soldiers at a relentlessly steady pace for two years at this point. They started with a famously large army but it would be surprising if any supply of available recruits hadn’t been exhausted and then some by now.